In a soon-to-be-released interview with The New Republic, President Obama reportedly laments the negative influence Fox News and Rush Limbaugh can have on the congressional debate over various pieces of legislation.

The president told TNR editor Frank Foer and owner Chris Hughes that “One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates.”

The media can either help break or uphold partisan gridlock, the president said, adding that “If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it.”

The president also conceded that “[t]he same dynamic happens on the Democratic side,” but in his mind, “the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word.”

From Kirsten Powers:

When is Obama going to attack MSNBC which is actually what he claims Fox is (arm of DNC). Oh wait @mmfa doesn’t want him to do that.

It amazing to me that we are even in the game! Nine outta ten media outlets, entertainers and academic types are in the tank for the Sainted One! Mitt got 47% of the vote with the deck totally stacked in Obama’s favor!

Democrats are interviewed, Republicans are interrogated. In the real world, Dick Gregory would say “Tonight I am going to interview president Obama”, or, “Tonight I am going to interrogate Senator Rubio”. There is a difference in the way each is handled and it should be called what it is.

“Barack Obama will lead by example and require that he himself come out of his isolation, that he move out of his comfort zones. Barack will never allow himself to go back to his life as usual, uninformed, unshooting.”

I can’t remember where, but I recently heard her say that by working at FOX she’s been forced to leave her liberal bubble and engage with conservatives, and she’s found to her surprise that conservatives are more open to hearing opposing ideas than liberals … that liberals presume all correct-thinking people agree with them and are taken aback when someone voices an opposing viewpoint in their midst.

““the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word.”

I must have missed something, as I do not remember ANYONE (let alone POTUS) on the Left admitting that the media that supports them is biased. They just rail against Fox, while proclaiming all others as objective.

Obama should tie a blue bow around the BS he dumps every time he speaks. Oh wait. That is what he *is* doing. Never mind. Move along… move along… nothing out of the ordinary to smell here… just bow-tied Obama BS.

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